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Free eBooks: Occult, Witchcraft, Prophecy, Sourcery, Divination (Kindle Nook iPad PDF EPub Html) DigitalBookIndex. The 100 most meaningful books of all time - Literature - Christchurch City Libraries. A 2002 survey of around 100 well-known authors from 54 countries voted for the most meaningful book of all time in a poll organised by editors at the Norwegian Book Clubs in Oslo.

The 100 most meaningful books of all time - Literature - Christchurch City Libraries

Voters included Doris Lessing, Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes and Norman Mailer. Miguel de Cervantes’ tale gained 50% more votes than any other book, eclipsing works by Shakespeare, Homer and Tolstoy. Ten authors got more than one book on to the list. After Cervantes, Fyodor Dostoevsky emerged as the most worthwhile read with four books listed. The only Shakespeare plays the authors agreed on were Hamlet, King Lear and Othello. Other than Don Quixote in first place below, the remaining 99 titles are reproduced as published by De Norske Bokklubbene in alphabetical order and are not ranked. Reddit's Top 105 Fantasy Novels/Series of All Time - How many of the top all time fantasy novels/series have you read. 550 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free. Download 3 Free Audiobooks from AudioBooks.com Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer.

550 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

Below, you’ll find great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more. Also please see our related collection: The 150 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind. Fiction & Literature. Addicted to Outlander? 11 Books to Read During the Long Wait for Season Two. The Top Eight Sites For Free Audio Books on the Web. Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum. Yesterday, we wrote about the Wellcome Library’s opening up of its digital archives and making over 100,000 medical images freely available online.

Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum

If you’ve already made your way through this choice selection (or if the prospect of viewing a 19th century leg amputation doesn’t quite pique your curiosity) have no fear. Getty Publications just announced the launch of its Virtual Library, where readers can freely browse and download over 250 art books from the publisher’s backlist catalogue. The Virtual Library consists of texts associated with several Getty institutions. Readers can view extensively researched exhibition catalogues from the J. Paul Getty Museum, including Paul Cézanne’s late-life watercolours, when the painter raised the still life to a high art (Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors, 2004), as well as the woefully underappreciated Flemish illustrations of the 15th and 16th centuries (Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript, 2003). Free Ebooks: Green, Cookbooks, Self-sufficiency, Off Grid, Homes. 20 Places to Find Free Books Online.

The following is a guest post by Bailey Harris.

20 Places to Find Free Books Online

Tim Burton's : The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy. Our Map - Little Free Library. 20 Websites To Download Free EBooks (Part III) And we’re back with Part 3!

20 Websites To Download Free EBooks (Part III)

Yes, the world still loves books, no matter what version they are in: printed or electronic. Some of us prefer them in ebook version simply because they are so easy to locate, download and store for future reading and reference. In this list you can download free ebooks that range from Romance to Horror, Sci-fi to Historical Fiction. They are also available in PDF, text, doc and the crowd’s favorite ePub version. Without further ado, let’s take a look at 20 additional places you can download free ebooks from. AudioBooksForFree.com. Reddit's Top 105 Fantasy Novels/Series of All Time - How many have you read? The 25 Best Tumblr Accounts for Book Nerds. Tumblr has built itself as the center of a large creative community.

The 25 Best Tumblr Accounts for Book Nerds

You can find graphic artists, hilarious GIFs and talented musicians sharing their work. It’s also home to countless readers, writers and book lovers. If you’re a true bibliophile, Tumblr has lots of blogs to feed your love of the written word. Here’s a small sampling of its book bonanza. Real Authors Social media is a great way to stay connected to people you admire, and there are several intriguing authors active on Tumblr. Here’s just a handful of the great author-run Tumblrs out there: 25 sources of free public domain books. This is an updated list of sites that offer free public domain books in electronic and audio format.

25 sources of free public domain books

Every year new publications enter public domain. That means their intellectual property rights have expired or are not applicable any longer. The content of these works becomes available for public use. Anyone is free to use it – but also to reuse it, for instance publish a new edition. Therefore you may find in major ebookstores (Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iBook Store, or Google Play Books) public domain books that are not free. My advice is that if you want to get an ebook version of a classic novel like Pride and Prejudice, you should first check out the sites listed below. The dates books enter public domain vary between countries. This list will be updated yearly. Recommended overview: 50 awesome posters that encourage to read Art prints / Instant downloads.